Clithon corona

Clithon corona is a species of brackish water and freshwater snail with an operculum, a nerite. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.^[3][4][5]

Clithon corona
Clithon corona from the Philippines
Clithon corona shell. Scale bar is 10 mm.
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Family:	Neritidae
Genus:	Clithon
Species:	C. corona
Binomial name
Clithon corona (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[2]
Clithon variabilis Lesson, 1831 Nerita cardinalis Le Guillou, 1841 (invalid: junior homonym of Nerita cardinalis Röding, 1798) Nerita corona Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Nerita keraudrenii Le Guillou, 1841 Nerita montacuti Récluz, 1843 Nerita montaguana Récluz, 1850 Nerita obscurata Récluz, 1842 Nerita recluziana Le Guillou, 1841 Neritina aspera Philippi, 1845 Neritina brevispina Lamarck, 1822 Neritina coronoides Lesson, 1831 Neritina corrugata Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848 Neritina deltoidea Mousson, 1870 Neritina discors Martens, 1878 Neritina flexuosa Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848 Neritina hapa Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848 Neritina monilifera Martens, 1878 Neritina musiva Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848 Neritina paya Gassies, 1858 Neritina rhitidophora Tapparone Canefri, 1893 Neritina ruida Mousson, 1857 Neritina subrugata Baird, 1873 Neritina unidentata Récluz, 1850 Neritina vitiana Mousson, 1870

Description

Abapertural view of Clithon corona shell.

Distribution

Native to the Western Pacific, from the Philippines to Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Samoa, Taiwan, and the Okinawa and Ryukyu Islands of Japan.^[3][4][5]

Ecology

The freshwater crab Clibanarius fonticola uses shells of Clithon corona only.^[5]

Human use

It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.^[6]